Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time

Steve Austin: [about Owen Hart botching a piledriver] As soon as my head hit that mat, I was thinking Christopher Reeve. Cause I knew I was never gonna walk again, ever. I couldn't feel anything from my neck down.

Jim Ross: It was very scary. It was essential basic human error.

Steve Austin: Man, I'm laying there, and now pain's starting to set in, and my interior delts are burning like fire. There was no way I was gonna lay there and let some ambulance or bunch of paramedics carry me out of that ring. I hit him with the roll-up; it looks like shit. One, two, three; I'm the champion. I grab the belt, and I held it up in the air, and when I looked back at that footage, and I look in my eyes, if you look at my eyes, the lights are on there, but there ain't nobody home. I'm... pretty fucked up, and I'm really hurt. But I did it. I remember going to the back, I sat down on a bench, and I was in a world of hurt. And I was confused and I was... didn't know what was gonna happen to me. When you come that close to almost being paralyzed for the rest of your life, it really fucks your head up.

Vince McMahon: That incident really, really bugged him, on so many different levels.